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| To find out more about Dale and Innovation 7, [[Research and Innovation Symposium 2024 Speakers/www.innovation7.ca/|click here]] | | To find out more about Dale and Innovation 7, [[Research and Innovation Symposium 2024 Speakers/www.innovation7.ca/|click here]] |
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| + | '''<big>Zahra Ebrahim</big>''' |
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| + | Co-Founder, Monumental |
| + | |Zahra Ebrahim is the Co-Founder of Monumental. She is a public interest designer and strategist, and an established bridge builder across grassroots and institutional spaces. Her work has focused on community-led approaches to policy, infrastructure, and service design. Prior to Monumental, she built and led Doblin Canada, Deloitte’s Human-Centred Design practice. In her early career, Zahra led one of Canada’s first social design studios, working with communities to co-design towards better social outcomes, leading some of Canada’s most ambitious participatory infrastructure and policy programs. Zahra is currently an Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, and an Adjunct Professor at the Daniels School of Architecture . She has been recognized as a Next City Vanguard Civic Leader, Ascend Canada’s Mentor of the Year, one of WXN’s Top 100 Women in Canadian Business, and most recently recognized as one of the Urban Land Institute’s WLI Champions. Zahra is currently a Board member of the Toronto Arts Council, and the Board Chair for Park People. |
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| Chief Executive Officer, BC Rental Protection Fund | | Chief Executive Officer, BC Rental Protection Fund |
− | |Katie Maslechko is the Chief Executive Officer of the Rental Protection Fund, the $500-million Fund established by the Province of British Columbia, which provides equity investments to non�profit housing providers to support the preservation of existing, unsubsidized affordable housing (NOAH) through acquisition and renewal, while expanding the capacity of the community housing sector across the Province of B.C. She finds great passion in, and has a strong track record of, strategic partnerships across the private development, non-profit and government sectors to deliver innovative, community�building projects. In her prior role as Director of Development for a local developer, Katie was at the helm of groundbreaking projects in a variety of sectors and asset classes including: several public-private affordable housing partnerships, Vancouver’s first purpose-built Life Sciences laboratory and manufacturing facilities, and the award-winning MEC Flagship, the largest retail application of mass-timber construction. She has also worked with a New York City non-profit developer delivering facilities for charter schools in underserved neighborhoods through unique development and financing strategies. Katie is the Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Public-Private Partnership Product Council (Gold Flight), as well as ULI Americas YLG/NEXT Advisory Board and ULI BC’s Management Committee as Chair of DEI+R. She previously served as the Americas Co-Chair of ULI Americas Young Leaders Group, and as Board Director for a non-profit housing society in Vancouver. | + | |Katie Maslechko is the Chief Executive Officer of the Rental Protection Fund, the $500-million Fund established by the Province of British Columbia, which provides equity investments to non-profit housing providers to support the preservation of existing, unsubsidized affordable housing (NOAH) through acquisition and renewal, while expanding the capacity of the community housing sector across the Province of B.C. She finds great passion in, and has a strong track record of, strategic partnerships across the private development, non-profit and government sectors to deliver innovative, community-building projects. In her prior role as Director of Development for a local developer, Katie was at the helm of groundbreaking projects in a variety of sectors and asset classes including: several public-private affordable housing partnerships, Vancouver’s first purpose-built Life Sciences laboratory and manufacturing facilities, and the award-winning MEC Flagship, the largest retail application of mass-timber construction. She has also worked with a New York City non-profit developer delivering facilities for charter schools in underserved neighborhoods through unique development and financing strategies. Katie is the Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Public-Private Partnership Product Council (Gold Flight), as well as ULI Americas YLG/NEXT Advisory Board and ULI BC’s Management Committee as Chair of DEI+R. She previously served as the Americas Co-Chair of ULI Americas Young Leaders Group, and as Board Director for a non-profit housing society in Vancouver. |
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| '''<big>Mary Rowe</big>''' | | '''<big>Mary Rowe</big>''' |
− | | | + | |Mary W. Rowe is President and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI). For over 30 years, Mary has acted as an impassioned civic leader and a leading urban advocate championing place-based approaches to building livable and resilient cities. Living in Canada and the United States, Mary has supported a wide range of policy transformation efforts and has led local, national and international urban initiatives such as the self-organizing initiatives that emerged in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, the initial development of Re-Imagining the Civic Commons in key cities across North America, and the engagement components of HUD-supported Rebuild by Design that informed the creation of the 100 Resilient Cities program of the Rockefeller Foundation. She is also Senior Fellow with Shorefast and is a frequent contributor to national and international city-building programs such as UN Habitat, Ottawa City Building Summit, Livable Cities Forum, Mansueto Institute Summit, the Art of City Building, and the inaugural meeting of the G7 Urban Development Ministers in Potsdam, Germany. Under Mary’s leadership, CUI has expanded its work to include an international network from government, industry, community and city-building professions to advance research and collaborate on solutions to some of our greatest urban challenges |
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